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The enemies don't react to unsilenced Sniper Rifle shot at maximum Actor Fade, so i see no need to increase it further. I save Beyond Visual Range figthing to flight simulators

Sniping Cazadores at max range is a pain in the ass for me.... mainly because they move before the bullets reach them.

Sorry, but while I can understand where you're coming from slightly... barely... it's still simply the way things work. Very few things can take a bullet in the head and survive for more than a few seconds on instinct/reflexes. Some animals (such as the dog the Pitt Bull) actually have a skull hard enough, and with enough of the right angles, to deflect a bullet, some pigs/boars do as well for example. You take out the brain, or a truly major organ like the heart. It just doesn't matter. you, it, whatever is DEAD. If I had the PC version, I might go ahead with the 'headshot-auto-kills'. Even though it could happen to me.

But to say that they're too powerful because they're doing exactly what they should. is just silly.

As for sneak-criticals. It makes sense that they do more damage, because you can line-up the attack far better. A most common one would be a Garrote or just coming up behind someone and slitting their throat. Tends to be a quick/instant kill. Try that with someone who knows your coming. It's not going to happen unless they're just a moron, or unless your skill is THAT much better. Sneak-criticals make sense. And on harder levels, or with less accurate weapons. even a sneak-crit often won't kill something. Esp if they have any worthwhile armor. It's not so much a random occurrence (like regular criticals). It's EVERY time. And should be.

I would like to see backpacks hard-wired into the game. hardcoe "weight" is one thing, but come on, no way you can carry more than one rifle and some boxes of ammo really. So I would like weight limited to one outfit/gun/some ammo and stims, until you can get to a store and buy a backpack/dufflebag. And then buy bigger, and bigger, as you progress in the game.

(i know we can mod it, and I have, but it should be built-in, at least in hardcoe mode. I was carrying 7 rifles, 5 pistols, a rocket launcher, a minigun, 3 shotguns, 5 suits of armor, 8 hats, throwing spears... and was skipping along merrily without so-much as a bulge in my pockets. Whaaaaat?)

1. No random encounters.
Look, I don't want to meet level scaled enemies every 30 meters like in FO3 but I would like random encounter zones where it is possible to meet a random group of enemies scaled to that areas overall level.
As it is now I can kill the Gecko's outside of Vault 34 and when I go back they have respawned in the exact same locations.
Why I want this back is because I want to for example meet generic Khans out on scouting parties or maybe Van Graff caravans or Van Graff hit squads.
The game just becomes predictable with absolutely NO random encounters.

2. Energy Weapons freaking svck.

3. Unarmed perks requiring Melee skill and vice versa.

4. Not enough Legion quests.

5. Some factions could really have needed a couple of more quests to them.

Yep. It was a horrible design choice to tie unarmed and melee together in a way that prevents any ranged character in the game from taking one of them as his secondary skill (Guns + Melee would be an obvious choice for example). Requirement should be changed to require Melee OR Unarmed at certain level instead of Melee AND Unarmed at certain level.

Yea, waste 1/15th of all my perks to get 1/4th of the information necessary to play the game. I want my builds to aim for perfection, no space for perks like that on them.

1. Sniper rifles are extremely overpowered currently. Not only they are pin-point accurate with true-sight scope even at max range allowing player to snipe enemies that aren't even on ED-E's sensors yet, they also get insanely high 5x critical rate. They should be reduced in power by both decreasing their accuracy below 100% and reducing their crit multiplier from 5x to something more sane like 1.5x. Sneak criticals, they are way overpowered and should be reduced in occurrence to silenced weapons, melee weapons and unarmed techniques.

4. Rebalance survival recipes. They require tons and tons of rare ingredients for little gain rendering vast majority of them simply useless. Since we can't realistically make ourselves stimpaks (there are like 5 empty syringes in the entire game), how about at least we could hunt and prepare ourselves food to make up for it Allow for more recycling. When I use a stimpak, I want to be left with an empty syringe. When I drink a battle of water or coke I'd want to keep that battle and be able to refill it at nearest water source. When I do mass purification, how about I didn't lose the pressure cooker which is hard as hell to find (10 or so in the whole game). Why can't we cook on stoves? Why?

7. SPECIAL. Charisma and Perception should play a bigger role. How about capping max gun skills with Perception so you need at least 5 to reach 100? How about capping social skills in a similar way to prevent people with CHA at 1 to get to Speech 100? This would encourage more balanced builds and reduce the number of dump stats.

a foreign supermodel that can only speak broken English].

That sounds like speech check passed in my book :angel:

Bad design choice for me is how slowly the game is focusing more in to FPS crowd.
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How about via hand written letter? :laugh:

** The Speech check could fail for not being able to form an understandable sentence (this was possible in FO1 & 2 ~some NPC's could not even talk to you if your speech [Int] was too low).

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yA8IMXOsDQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp6F5Bk8mB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuBjeLiWhek

(though in these examples... its due to low intelligence)

1. Sniper rifles are extremely overpowered currently. Not only they are pin-point accurate with true-sight scope even at max range allowing player to snipe enemies that aren't even on ED-E's sensors yet, they also get insanely high 5x critical rate. They should be reduced in power by both decreasing their accuracy below 100% and reducing their crit multiplier from 5x to something more sane like 1.5x. Sneak criticals, they are way overpowered and should be reduced in occurrence to silenced weapons, melee weapons and unarmed techniques. Sniper Rifles are using a .308 round. Sneaking or not...you try taking one to the head and survive. In fact I can't name any firearm that is so forgiving as to allow a person struck in the head to continue to fight. A 5x crit is indeed over the top but 1.5x is a bit low...I think 2.5x is about right. I think that would allow for one shots against almost all humans targets while leaving the armored mutants and abominations with a second shot needed.

2. Fast travel, there should be a way to get to the important locations DIRECTLY. Getting to the suite in Lucky 38 means going through 3-4 different loading screens and running for at least a minute. It's wasting our time guys. All districts in Freeside should be on the map, there should be a way to get inside larger map structures too. For example inside BoS bunker or McCarran terminal. I'm sick and tired of running for a minute through a sand-storm because I have to drop a laser pistol and leave right away. Similarily, fast travel outside of friendly buildings should be allowed so I don't need to walk out before I can move on. I totally agree but there is an actual reason for the limitation. The system actually only allows fast travel on the over-world map and never on the local map. That means that you can't fast travel to the inside of anything. Freeside, Lucky 38, The BoS bunker, McCarran, The Strip, all count as indoor locations even if they are "outdoors".

3. Energy weapons should be the ones that focus on modding in different ways. We should be able to customize projectiles on plasma or laser more than now. Every second gun has an upgrade or two while only handful of energy weapons can be modded - and typically those of very low tiers. It should be the other way round. Give us more scopes here, high-tech guns should use more advanced targeting techniques than cowboy shotguns. Eh...firearms are like cars in this. Real world guns can be modified in almost limitless ways...mechanically. Energy behaves in very predictable paterns and we don't really have a way to alter that. Targeting mods are obviously a good idea for energy weapons as would high limit/discharge capacitors. There may be more but really those would be exceptionaly rare in the Fallout canon as the tech for energy weapons was just beginning to be miniaturized at the outbreak of the Two-Hour War.

4. Rebalance survival recipes. They require tons and tons of rare ingredients for little gain rendering vast majority of them simply useless. Since we can't realistically make ourselves stimpaks (there are like 5 empty syringes in the entire game), how about at least we could hunt and prepare ourselves food to make up for it Allow for more recycling. When I use a stimpak, I want to be left with an empty syringe. When I drink a battle of water or coke I'd want to keep that battle and be able to refill it at nearest water source. When I do mass purification, how about I didn't lose the pressure cooker which is hard as hell to find (10 or so in the whole game). Why can't we cook on stoves? Why? I don't use survival skills but I see what you mean. There are actually a good deal of empty syringes and pressure cookers though. I do think we should be able to keep the empties from stimpaks and bottles and other such containers. I also agree that we should be able to use stoves to use survival recipes. Maybe not all stoves because some of them would have been destroyed by time but at least some of them.

5. Can't purchase stealth boys, can't manufacture them either. Can't purchase weapon parts to assemble them using high skills. Can't purchase ammo parts to assemble them into what we want. Why there aren't HP and AP recipes at the bench? Why are weapon schematics gone? Wouldn't it be better if instead of giving the player a fully functional unique rifle instead you gave him schematics and a list of parts to make one? Stealthboys are lost tech...there is no way a guy/girl wandering around would be able to create one whole cloth. Recharge one sure. Repair a burnt out one? Maybe with a perk or questline to unlock the "knowledge" required to do so. I am completely with you on being disappointed about the lack of AP and HP ammo recipes. The loss of weapon schematics is also a mystery to me. I would buy DLC based around the quest for various schematics and parts, as long as it allowed for play after the "ending" of the main questline.

6. Enemies. They should get more perception - and when fired at they shouldn't just blindly run around, they should duck and cover and try to snipe the player. They need their sight range improved - and they need to be smarter at dealing with a sniper so player has to come down and finish them off after the first few shots because they are all hidden behind obstacles and refuse to come out.

Eh...this isn't a competitive FPS. I wouldn't complain about better AI but there are things that I want more than that.

7. SPECIAL. Charisma and Perception should play a bigger role. How about capping max gun skills with Perception so you need at least 5 to reach 100? How about capping social skills in a similar way to prevent people with CHA at 1 to get to Speech 100? This would encourage more balanced builds and reduce the number of dump stats. Not bad...really. Something like that could indeed be fun and cool. It would take a lot of balancing and playtesting (and who doesn't like that kind of work :mohawk:)... but sounds good.

I actually made a PC Home in GECK that has a stove that works like a campfire.
However, I guess without gas, stoves don't work. So not being able to use stoves is actually kind of realistic.